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Wednesday, December 28, 2016

UN ASCETA


                    (Mt. 10:38, 16:24)


Gracias te doy, mi Dios, por esta cruz,

relámpago que en mi pecho enterrado
me ha llenado de una luz interior,

dardo que en mi corazón hundido
ha encendido ahí un radiante dolor.

Y gracias por el fuego en el que yo ardo,
rosas las llamas son, y el humo espinas.

Gracias por el madero, la viga áspera y dura
que por la vía dolorosa de esta vida

arrastro—Gracias por la esencia pura
que rezuman mis llagas: mirra, nardo,    

incienso de punzante olor, fragancia divina
que destila cada gota de sangre que derramo…

Y por los clavos que me esperan, ¡gracias mil!
¡Mías sean las penas, la gloria sea tuya!

No me las quites nunca, aunque no me las merezca:
La ligereza, mi desnudez después de tal despojo,

Thursday, November 17, 2016

A RIDDLE


Now I am bound taut, drawn down
by those gigantic hands
to the framework that holds me from below. 
The slightest tap upon this rack
can make me quiver into sound.
And when against the cross-pull of the strands
that come and go
I shudder and vibrate,
the whole body of my world resounds.
Yet should I lie slack along all my length
in complete contact with this ground,
nor it nor I would resonate:
there would be no music then.
It is this thing
perversely called a bridge,
that separates
and holds me back
from everything—this hard threshold,
this stumbling block—produces strength,       
gives power to strain,
and makes me sing.
Sometimes so vibrant is the pain
that thrills me through, I know
they are stroking me again
(fingers pressing, probing how
to raise my cries up to a scream)
with that delicate, pitiless bow. 

How they must be enjoying it now. 





(THE STRING OF A FIDDLE)      







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Friday, October 7, 2016

A FRAGMENT


Their breathing came quiet and slow.

After working together hard
to light the spark that fused,
then shattered them,
they rested. 

One sprawled apart,
sweat-polished like a slave
caught in the toils of love,
dissolving along a current of dreams.



His lover lay heavy and warm,
eyes closed against the all-absorbing dark, 

Monday, October 3, 2016

HERE’S TO WILLIAM J. CLINTON




To William J. Clinton,
our President quondam,
who’s shown that he takes the whole world
for his condom.

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"I did not have sexshul relations with that wohman."  

Monday, August 1, 2016

EN LA PLAYA DE LA SANTA VIRGEN


Saliste de la malla chispeante
de la ondulante marejada
tal como un dios desnudo;
el arco doble de tu pecho
se tallaba de sol y sombra. 

Tus piernas rompían el agua;
los prismas rutilantes
corrían por tus muslos;
tus dedos despedían
centellas de diamante. 

Serpientes embelesadas
de espuma te perseguían
hasta donde me encontraba
esperándote en la orilla.
Ellas silbaban tu nombre
cual locas enamoradas;
sus lenguas de amargo almíbar
me salpicaron la cara. 

Desde las piedras torcidas
y rotas de de la bahía,
la santa imagen tendía
los brazos hacia mí,  

¡Santa Virgen de las rocas!
¡Virgen Santa del rocío! 

con las manos devoradas
por los vientos y las olas,
y la vestidura rota
por el salitre incrustada . . .

Friday, July 15, 2016

LA FRANCE C’EST NOUS, NOUS SOMMES LA FRANCE



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Thursday, May 26, 2016

A SORT OF CONSOLATION

Slim and smooth as a teen-age boy,
With hands and lips willful and deft,
He led me around like a toy
Duck on a string . . . until he left,
Taking a great piece of my heart
A double defection and theft.
So I was left with my   art.




























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